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why hasn't there been more focus on the -- the more we know, cia may have had more oversight over this outpost than any other agency. should there be more, should the intelligence committee, should there be more of an investigation into the cia's actions before, during and after? >> i think mr. issa's committee is not finished in that regard. i'm not a member of the intelligence committee and frankly, i'm not privy to all the conversations that go on there, but yes, the state department should be the focus of this as well as additional penetrating questions i'm glad on the house side, we have folks willing to ask the tough questions to get the facts out. >> all right, roger wicker, thanks for coming on this morning. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up, lawmakers are using words like sickening, abhorrent, to describe the latest string of military assault scandals. but first, how many sets of siblings have served sim ul tan yous ly in the senate. we know some of you folks when sander levin's on, you think carl levin. first person to tweet the correct answer gets an on air shout out. udalls a
why hasn't there been more focus on the -- the more we know, cia may have had more oversight over this outpost than any other agency. should there be more, should the intelligence committee, should there be more of an investigation into the cia's actions before, during and after? >> i think mr. issa's committee is not finished in that regard. i'm not a member of the intelligence committee and frankly, i'm not privy to all the conversations that go on there, but yes, the state department...
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you can't have lots of people around, especially if you're protecting or covering a cia facility. lots of factors here. do you think there was any way to have protected him short of him not having gone to benghazi that day? >> yes, i believe there was, and i in our report listed the shortcomings that may well have helped in that regard. this is only a guess. chris was a wonderful ambassador. chris worked for me for two years. i admired his work. he had absolutely the right concept. americans need to get out and talk to people and understand what things are happening in these countries overseas. >> yeah, i was a peace corps volunteer, too, and i think it's wonderful when these guys and women become diplomats because they don't hide in the compound and eat hamburgers and watch super bowls. they get out and meet people. you know what i mean. he wasn't a striped pants guy. i've got david corn here of "mother jones." he and i were talking, mr. ambassador. >> i have a question for you, mr. ambassador. you put out a thorough report. unclassified version. there was also a classified versi
you can't have lots of people around, especially if you're protecting or covering a cia facility. lots of factors here. do you think there was any way to have protected him short of him not having gone to benghazi that day? >> yes, i believe there was, and i in our report listed the shortcomings that may well have helped in that regard. this is only a guess. chris was a wonderful ambassador. chris worked for me for two years. i admired his work. he had absolutely the right concept....
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the cia never asked them to kill the story. very important to know. for five days the ap sat on the story, they took care of their asset. they said it's safe to run the story. they ran it. they needed an extra day. they wanted their pr plan to go in place. now, what happens is, other news organizations is going to be less trusting of the government. >> but, ron is right. it extends worldwide. we're the standard bearer of freedom of the press. suppressing information, they'll look to the united states, oh, well, president obama is doing that to their press we can do it, too. ron is absolutely right. look, we're going too take your logs out, it's all about relationship and trust. and if those sources say, hey, i'm not going to do this because in fear of possible investigation or what have you, that's a problem for us to disseminate fact chul information. >> one of the reasons the ap should have been consulted. i think there's a strong case to be made that the white house or the justice department could have gone to a court and had them adjudicate it as
the cia never asked them to kill the story. very important to know. for five days the ap sat on the story, they took care of their asset. they said it's safe to run the story. they ran it. they needed an extra day. they wanted their pr plan to go in place. now, what happens is, other news organizations is going to be less trusting of the government. >> but, ron is right. it extends worldwide. we're the standard bearer of freedom of the press. suppressing information, they'll look to the...
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i don't know if the ap went to the cia or the cia went to the ap, it's not material. the government said that she this is dangerous. please don't put this information out. the ap as news organizations do, held off on this story. right? the cia never asked them to kill the story. that's very important to know. for five days the ap sat on the story, they took care of their asset. the cia said that it's safe to run the story. a few hours later it, they said we need an extra day because we want to put out a press release. now, what happens is, other news organizations is going to be less trusting of the government. >> but, ron is right. it extends worldwide. we are the standard bearer of freedom of the press. and then you have these nations suppressing information, they'll look to the united states saying, oh, well, president obama is doing that to their press we can do it, too. ron is absolutely right. if you can start saying, look, we're going too take your logs out, it's all about relationship and trust. and if those sources say, hey, i'm not going to do this because i
i don't know if the ap went to the cia or the cia went to the ap, it's not material. the government said that she this is dangerous. please don't put this information out. the ap as news organizations do, held off on this story. right? the cia never asked them to kill the story. that's very important to know. for five days the ap sat on the story, they took care of their asset. the cia said that it's safe to run the story. a few hours later it, they said we need an extra day because we want to...
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is the cia trying to cover it. we also now know that one of the two facilities attacked was a cia annex and what role did that have in the attacks and what the security situation was in this compound are questions that have not been asked publicly by republicans on the hill and we don't have answers to those. >> is this certainly something more stemming from interagency issues going back and forth about what could be talked about? we know that petraeus got on the record saying what are we talking about? >> what this document dump showed is that the cia was much more involved than we believed. the senior administration officials stressed that the talking points were changed even quite a bit within the cia before they got to the other agencies and before they got to the white house even. i think david raises a lot of good points in the cia's role. republicans were quick to rush and defend the cia in order to hurt the state department. so now the cia's role should get more scrutiny. >> it has been a wild week in washi
is the cia trying to cover it. we also now know that one of the two facilities attacked was a cia annex and what role did that have in the attacks and what the security situation was in this compound are questions that have not been asked publicly by republicans on the hill and we don't have answers to those. >> is this certainly something more stemming from interagency issues going back and forth about what could be talked about? we know that petraeus got on the record saying what are we...
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the cia isn't commenting. it also broadcast a recording of an alleged second american spy expelled in january. details of the spy scandal have been splashed across the russian media. interfax news agency even reporting that the wigs ryan fogel wore to disguise himself are similar to wigs taken from a cia agent caught in 1986. experienced russia watchers say it's not surprising alleged spies are being unmasked, but they question, why so publicly and why now? they say it could be the cold wear hangovers, suspicions that just won't die. or an fsb warning to russians, no the to work with the u.s. or maybe the u.s. behind the scenes did something to anger moscow. but it's happening just as secretary of state john kerry and russian foreign minister are cooperating more on syria. russia is helping in the standoff with north korea. russia's fsb gave the fbi intelligence on one of the boston bombers. in the world of spying, much goes on in the shadows. one former cia officer says, it's all part of america's improved, b
the cia isn't commenting. it also broadcast a recording of an alleged second american spy expelled in january. details of the spy scandal have been splashed across the russian media. interfax news agency even reporting that the wigs ryan fogel wore to disguise himself are similar to wigs taken from a cia agent caught in 1986. experienced russia watchers say it's not surprising alleged spies are being unmasked, but they question, why so publicly and why now? they say it could be the cold wear...
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it was close hold even at the cia. it wasn't even brief to the leadership of congress. it wasn't briefed to any congressional oversight committee. one thing that troubles me is that one of the telephone records they went after were the records of the congressional correspondent of the ap. since it could not have come from congress why were they seeking the records of the congressional correspondent of the ap? >> even more than that, judge, isn't the fact that in the middle of an election year that the white house was going to have a press conference the next day on the very same thing, ap agree heed to embardot, held it for -- embargo, held it and then scooped the white house they the white house was going to scoop them. how secret was this? how much national security was on the line here? >> sounds like ripe subjects for congressional oversight. this is exactly what congressional committees are supposed to look into to find out whether executive agencies are doing their jobs properly and if not whether that is because of income p incompetenr whether additional legislat
it was close hold even at the cia. it wasn't even brief to the leadership of congress. it wasn't briefed to any congressional oversight committee. one thing that troubles me is that one of the telephone records they went after were the records of the congressional correspondent of the ap. since it could not have come from congress why were they seeking the records of the congressional correspondent of the ap? >> even more than that, judge, isn't the fact that in the middle of an election...
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at issue the 2012 ap report revealing the cia's role in thwarting a terror plot in yemen. on tuesday eric holder defended the actions calling that article quota serious leak. >> this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three, most serious leaks that i've ever seen. it put the american people at risk and that's not hyperbole. it put the american people at risk. and trying to determine who is responsible for that i think required very aggressive action. >> holder recused himself from the matter because of a conflict of interest. the white house maintains it has no prior knowledge of the ap investigation. >>> for the second time in as many weeks a military member in charge of protecting victims of sexual assault is facing allegations of committing that crime himself. the pentagon says the coordinator of fort hood sexual assault prevention program is accused of forcing at least one subordinate soldier into prostitution and for sexual assaulting two others. he's been suspended and no charges have been filed. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel is ordering
at issue the 2012 ap report revealing the cia's role in thwarting a terror plot in yemen. on tuesday eric holder defended the actions calling that article quota serious leak. >> this is among if not the most serious it is within the top two or three, most serious leaks that i've ever seen. it put the american people at risk and that's not hyperbole. it put the american people at risk. and trying to determine who is responsible for that i think required very aggressive action. >>...
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this is the first version of the benghazi talking points produced by the cia on september 14th, 2012. it says that the benghazi assaults may have been quote spontaneously inspired by the protests of the u.s. embassy in cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the u.s. consulate. it also said, quote, we know that islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack. it also cites at least five other attacks against foreign interests in benghazi and that we can not rule out that individuals had previously surveiled the u.s. facilities. the final version, after numerous revisions produced at 12:13 p.m. on september 15th kept the concept of a spontaneous demonstration but removed references to al qaeda or affiliated groups, previous attacks on diplomatic facilities or the possibility of premeditated under surveillance. this page shows how much of it happened. handwritten changes ordered by deputy cia director michael morell after a white house meeting september 15th. top cia officials told us his changes consequence dentally expressed those by top state department of
this is the first version of the benghazi talking points produced by the cia on september 14th, 2012. it says that the benghazi assaults may have been quote spontaneously inspired by the protests of the u.s. embassy in cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the u.s. consulate. it also said, quote, we know that islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack. it also cites at least five other attacks against foreign interests in benghazi and that we can not rule out...
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the russians remain firmly on the side of president bashar assad. >> greg: it's a big deal that the cia chief fliss in israel. >> very big deal and very much related. top of john brennan's agenda when he met with the israely difference minister, would have been the transfer of weapons from syria to hezbollah, the militant group based in lebanon. that is of great concern to the israelis. that's why they carried out various strikes within syria, against those sort of weapons shipments. all of this putting a great deal of pressure on the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as one expert, dr. joseph of the university of south carolina said to me, netanyahu cannot afford not to try to prevent the transfer of arms to hezbollah, and that probably is the key to the future of this conflict, at least in the immediate future. nobody wants a wider war here, greg, but israel has to too everything it took prevent the weapons getting across the border to hezbollah. >> greg: an important story. all right. we have an important guest. you want to stick around? >> sure. >> greg: yolanda -- i'm goin
the russians remain firmly on the side of president bashar assad. >> greg: it's a big deal that the cia chief fliss in israel. >> very big deal and very much related. top of john brennan's agenda when he met with the israely difference minister, would have been the transfer of weapons from syria to hezbollah, the militant group based in lebanon. that is of great concern to the israelis. that's why they carried out various strikes within syria, against those sort of weapons...
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strategy that he was talking about would probably intel in a lot of covert operations and involve the cia doing things like intelligence, much during the types of chemical weapons in syria and the types of the extremist groups. time to keep them from spreading utside of syria's borders. >> you said there does not seem to be momentum to undo this for 2014. what are you hearing on hat? >> republicans are trying to put forward a positive face. they want to get rid of sequester and so do most democrats. this is larger than the pentagon. the defense has not been able to move it. that is still the case. it is an issue about taxes, entitlements, and defense is in the middle, stuck. nothing the lawmakers have done has been able to move the needle. >> have people been able to convince their colleagues? >> they're having a hard time right now. certain elements have embraced sequester as a way to bring down government spending. if they do not come to a longer deal, the big question is whether they can do that in a strategic manner, whether they can prioritize and cut specific things. or whether they
strategy that he was talking about would probably intel in a lot of covert operations and involve the cia doing things like intelligence, much during the types of chemical weapons in syria and the types of the extremist groups. time to keep them from spreading utside of syria's borders. >> you said there does not seem to be momentum to undo this for 2014. what are you hearing on hat? >> republicans are trying to put forward a positive face. they want to get rid of sequester and so...
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you can't have lots of people around, especially if you're protecting or covering a cia facility. lots of factors here. do you think there was any way to have protected him short of him not having gone to benghazi that day? >> yes, i believe there was, and i in our report listed the shortcomings that may well have helped in that regard. this is only a guess. chris was a wonderful ambassador. chris worked for me for two years. i admired his work. he had absolutely the right concept. americans need to get out and talk to people and understand what things are happening in these countries overseas. >> yeah, i was a peace corps volunteer, too, and i think it's wonderful when these guys and women become diplomats because they don't hide in the compound and eat hamburgers and watch super bowls. they get out and meet people. you know what i mean. he wasn't a striped pants guy. i've got david corn here of "mother jones." he and i were talking, mr. ambassador. >> i have a question for you, mr. ambassador. you put out a thorough report. unclassified version. there was also a classified versi
you can't have lots of people around, especially if you're protecting or covering a cia facility. lots of factors here. do you think there was any way to have protected him short of him not having gone to benghazi that day? >> yes, i believe there was, and i in our report listed the shortcomings that may well have helped in that regard. this is only a guess. chris was a wonderful ambassador. chris worked for me for two years. i admired his work. he had absolutely the right concept....
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and then five days later they went back to the cia and the cia apparently said to them at that point we are all clear on this story but if you could hold off a day we would really appreciate it so we can kind of prep our response to the story then they decided they were going to ask, the cia said to the associated press we will give you a one hour exclusive. so we'll let you release the story an hour before we respond to it and before anybody else has it. then they came back a few minutes later and said we will do it five minutes before. at that point the a.p. said we are not going to wait a day we are going to print this thing. >> the allegation, lynn, seems to be that the associated press says now that you have told us, cia, that the national security issues have been resolved, we're not going to wait. we only waited on our story for five days because you told us national security was involved. now you say it's not. we are going to publish the story. the way the press report reads the associated press is scratching its head saying thought it was all resolved. how did it resolved in
and then five days later they went back to the cia and the cia apparently said to them at that point we are all clear on this story but if you could hold off a day we would really appreciate it so we can kind of prep our response to the story then they decided they were going to ask, the cia said to the associated press we will give you a one hour exclusive. so we'll let you release the story an hour before we respond to it and before anybody else has it. then they came back a few minutes later...
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it was a cia outpost with diplomatic cover. what you see in the e-mails, state being like oh, no, you don't, cia, don't put this on us, this was your facility that you have to defend. >> and god knows what went on before that. >> president obama called it a side show which was being incredibly generous. this story, the fact we are talking about it eight months later, the crafting, editing of basically a pr release for members of congress is amazing. and that's based on very bad reporting in the last week. >> yes, thank you. on friday when there was e-mails obtained, actually no, e-mails shown to republican congressional staffers who have an ax to grind who they be paraphrased them. >> who then passed on to the press, passed on to jonathan carl of abc news and passed on inaccurate summaries that the white house was playing politics. >> paraphrases that appeared in quotes. >> this signals that the white house itself thinks there's nothing there, but they poured fuel on the fire. they looked at a news cycle in which they've got th
it was a cia outpost with diplomatic cover. what you see in the e-mails, state being like oh, no, you don't, cia, don't put this on us, this was your facility that you have to defend. >> and god knows what went on before that. >> president obama called it a side show which was being incredibly generous. this story, the fact we are talking about it eight months later, the crafting, editing of basically a pr release for members of congress is amazing. and that's based on very bad...
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, paid by the cia, organized by the cia, but with cooperation from other countries. >> narrator: top cia official john rizzo helped authorize the prisons. >> rizzo: creating a prison system was something, certainly in my 25 years, we had never done. it was essential that these people be held in absolute isolation, with... with access to the fewest number of people. that quickly led to the conclusion that... that facilities had to be built oversees, secret facilities. >> narrator: for the first time, the white house had approved the building of an international prison system entirely in secret. >> priest: the amount of secrecy is phenomenal. the desire and the willingness of government to operate in secret and to deny the public, the media, the basic facts about whathey were doing was all- inclusive. we were falling deeper and deeper into a secretly-run government. >> narrator: and the secrecy was spreading. at the pentagon, by 2002, donald rumsfeld was waging his own covert campaign inside the defense department. >> priest: the cia was very much in front of the military, and that bot
, paid by the cia, organized by the cia, but with cooperation from other countries. >> narrator: top cia official john rizzo helped authorize the prisons. >> rizzo: creating a prison system was something, certainly in my 25 years, we had never done. it was essential that these people be held in absolute isolation, with... with access to the fewest number of people. that quickly led to the conclusion that... that facilities had to be built oversees, secret facilities. >>...
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they accused him of trying to recruit a russian intelligence officer to spy for our cia. amy kellogg is keeping track of all the cloak and dagger developments live from london. >> reporter: hi, jon. we're still getting pretty much silence on the american side about this incident but an aide, jon, to russian president vladmir putin said he was surprised by the quote, crude and clumsy espionage activities of the united states and russia. in the meantime, america's ambassador to russia was summoned to the foreign ministry in moscow today where was handed a formal protest over the incident. at the same time russia's foreign minister who met with secretary of state kerry at an arctic council meeting in sweden said the subject of the spy never came up at all between the two of them. neither broached it making it less than a diplomatic incident it appeared to be yesterday. secretary kerry for his part at a news conference said he had nothing to further add about all of this with no further comment from the united states, not even a confirmation in fact the man russia named ryan
they accused him of trying to recruit a russian intelligence officer to spy for our cia. amy kellogg is keeping track of all the cloak and dagger developments live from london. >> reporter: hi, jon. we're still getting pretty much silence on the american side about this incident but an aide, jon, to russian president vladmir putin said he was surprised by the quote, crude and clumsy espionage activities of the united states and russia. in the meantime, america's ambassador to russia was...
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also this week a spy scandal russia exposes the cia's chief in moscow on u.s. intelligence is caught red handed on to a crude.
also this week a spy scandal russia exposes the cia's chief in moscow on u.s. intelligence is caught red handed on to a crude.
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says the written busting of a cia spy goes against the u.s. russia spirit of trust while the scandal leads the american agent of the mercy of the world's media with a steady flow of drugs and guns over his clothes the scale. of . the pleasures more than haunt the billion euros towards rebuilding mali as a major donors conference even of the eurozone economy shrinks for the sake of course i am. also this hour security over the sanctity of the u.s. government is up to a massive players operation targeting journalists with the white house trumping national security i've got it be all and end all.
says the written busting of a cia spy goes against the u.s. russia spirit of trust while the scandal leads the american agent of the mercy of the world's media with a steady flow of drugs and guns over his clothes the scale. of . the pleasures more than haunt the billion euros towards rebuilding mali as a major donors conference even of the eurozone economy shrinks for the sake of course i am. also this hour security over the sanctity of the u.s. government is up to a massive players operation...
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this was a cia outpost. four people from the state department were there for probably 30 or so people from the cia. they weren't talking about that. the state department was a little anxious that it would look like they had gotten all of these warnings that they hadn't paid any attention to. so what they're saying here is this was not about politics. this was about figuring out what we could say to the american people that was unclassified and that was accurate. as it turned out, of course, it was completely false. >> because i know in some of these documents, victoria nuland who was the spokesman, spokeswoman for the state department, she was very concerned about the reputation understandably so of the state department. >> well, that's one of the issues gloria just touched on was the fact that there was a huge cia presence in benghazi. and when they evacuated 30 individuals out the morning after, more than 20 of them were from the cia and the state department thought that this, especially the cia annex, tha
this was a cia outpost. four people from the state department were there for probably 30 or so people from the cia. they weren't talking about that. the state department was a little anxious that it would look like they had gotten all of these warnings that they hadn't paid any attention to. so what they're saying here is this was not about politics. this was about figuring out what we could say to the american people that was unclassified and that was accurate. as it turned out, of course, it...
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the e-mails show exchanges between the white house, state department and cia as they worked to prepare talking points for the house intelligence committee. the same talking points that would be used by u.n. ambassador susan rice when she went on the sunday morning news programs that following sunday. republicans have criticized the administration for scrubbing talking points to remove references to al qaeda. they insist to protect the president in the final months of the presidential campaign when one of mr. obama's key themes throughout had been that al qaeda is on the run. in this afternoon's briefing a senior administration official insisted no one had perfect knowledge of exactly what happened at that time and that they didn't want to prejudice the fbi investigation that was then under way. let me show you one of these e-mails then written by the cia that writes i know there is a hurry to get this out, but we need to hold it long enough to ascertain whether providing it conflicts with express instructions from other agencies that in light of the criminal investigation we are not to
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and more spies in disguise russian security exposes the cia station chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence has left a red faced after getting caught trying to recruit a russian agent.
and more spies in disguise russian security exposes the cia station chief in moscow as u.s. intelligence has left a red faced after getting caught trying to recruit a russian agent.
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joining me now is phil black from moscow and former cia officer bob baer. phil, what are the latest details? >> reporter: well, anderson, after being detained last night here in moscow time, ryan fogle was we are told released back into the custody of u.s. embassy officials, and the expectation is now that he's been declared persona non grata he must leave the country immediately. we do not know when precisely and at the moment the u.s. embassy is maintaining silence, still no comment whatsoever. anderson? >> bob, what do you make of this? you're a former cia officer. the letter, the wigs, a compass in moscow, does it make sense to you? >> it makes no sense at all, anderson. you don't carry a compass when you make a meeting in moscow. you never carry a letter. wigs are a waste of time. you just never wear them. if you know who you're meeting it just doesn't matter what you look like. it almost looks like this a kgb, they call it the fsb, plant, to embarrass the united states. but for me, that tells a bigger story, relations between russian intelligence and
joining me now is phil black from moscow and former cia officer bob baer. phil, what are the latest details? >> reporter: well, anderson, after being detained last night here in moscow time, ryan fogle was we are told released back into the custody of u.s. embassy officials, and the expectation is now that he's been declared persona non grata he must leave the country immediately. we do not know when precisely and at the moment the u.s. embassy is maintaining silence, still no comment...
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these e-mails show exchanges between officials at the white house, the cia, and the state department over exactly what should be said in those talking points, the ones would be first provided to a house intelligence committee, but also provided to susan rice on that sunday following the benghazi attack. and i think the most significant lesson that we learn from reading these documents at this point is at least according to a senior administration official, that they say even though there was a lot of evidence that the state department, we reported, wanted changes, a senior intelligence official says specifically that they wanted the same changes independently of the state department and that they proactively made those changes. in these documents, we see one of the versions of the talking points, where then deputy cia director mike morel had crossed out a lot of the language in there, specifically language that referred to al qaeda and referred to past cia warnings. the concern among senior administration officials who tell nbc news this was that they didn't want to prejudice the fbi
these e-mails show exchanges between officials at the white house, the cia, and the state department over exactly what should be said in those talking points, the ones would be first provided to a house intelligence committee, but also provided to susan rice on that sunday following the benghazi attack. and i think the most significant lesson that we learn from reading these documents at this point is at least according to a senior administration official, that they say even though there was a...
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after the cia deposed most at the place mohammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five. question until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. with fundamentalists clerics now in power the company that would eventually be known as b.p. was forced to look elsewhere for their oil. we're all the product of our environment. i grew up in a place believe me and. this is one part of dances to a different to. louisiana is in my blood feud shaped who i am. a lot of people i grew up with became fishermen or musicians or oil workers. or shops. i became from. my family has deep roots in the easy and. the do praise the daily bars in the show bands all immigrated from france and settled in this region over a hundred years ago. and when oil was discovered we released our land to the oil companies. the oil companies supplied the jobs and the money. and we all went along for the ride. in the gulf of mexico fifteen a coastal state an accident her whole piece by piece the rig known as the deepwater horizon was drilling in over a mile of water and over thr
after the cia deposed most at the place mohammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five. question until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. with fundamentalists clerics now in power the company that would eventually be known as b.p. was forced to look elsewhere for their oil. we're all the product of our environment. i grew up in a place believe me and. this is one part of dances to a different to. louisiana is in my blood feud shaped who i am. a...
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the cia disputed who was in charge. at the end of the day, it was the deputy cia director morale who took out a lot of language whose deletion republicans object to. by the way, every iteration of the talking point from the first to the last included the assertion originally from the cia that the assault on the facility had originated from an anti-american demonstration. and a lot of people have said, well, the white house just made that up, it was a convenient narrative. that's what the intelligence community was saying from the get-go. susan rice had no role in the talking points. she was totally shafted. they sent her out with these things that she played no part in. she read them and missed the chance to be secretary of state as a result. >> marc l marco rubio was on the daily run down and was asked about security and benghazi. here is what he said. >> the security they had there was inadequate. the ability to respond to the attack was inadequate. that falls on the state department. my concern is the people who made
the cia disputed who was in charge. at the end of the day, it was the deputy cia director morale who took out a lot of language whose deletion republicans object to. by the way, every iteration of the talking point from the first to the last included the assertion originally from the cia that the assault on the facility had originated from an anti-american demonstration. and a lot of people have said, well, the white house just made that up, it was a convenient narrative. that's what the...
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first the cia blamed protesters. then the state department spokeswoman said prior warnings could make the agency look back. t >> the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits -- i mean to the talking points and then produced the talking points. >> for the president's spokesman to say that, well, there was only words or technical changes made in those e-mails is a flat-out untruth. >> so to blame the cia is a convenient truth. the real truth is, the people who were there in tripoli and in benghazi knew this was a terrorist attack from the get-go. >> reporter: issa says today he'll invite the co-chairs of the benghazi review board to testify privately about why they didn't question secretary of state clinton. >> because, in fact, we knew where the responsibility rested. >> reporter: lawmakers say expect more whistleblowers like gregory hicks who told congress last week he asked for more help during the benghazi attack and was denied. but some question whether this investigation is headed in the right direction.
first the cia blamed protesters. then the state department spokeswoman said prior warnings could make the agency look back. t >> the cia was the agency that made changes to the edits -- i mean to the talking points and then produced the talking points. >> for the president's spokesman to say that, well, there was only words or technical changes made in those e-mails is a flat-out untruth. >> so to blame the cia is a convenient truth. the real truth is, the people who were...
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this was about the confirmation of john brennan as the new head of the cia. they moved forward with that nomination and confirmed john brennan in that position. the speaker of the house is reported to be obsessed with benghazi and the political nefits of this pursuit. >> [inaudible] >> well, hold on, i'm just doing a great prelude to the answer which is -- [laughter] preface. so the speaker of the house is obsessed with this, has made all sorts of demands, and it turns out his office wasn't provided the information, but as obsessed as he was, he didn't show up to get the briefing, but a staffer did. so he's known all along what these e-mails do and don't contain. so i think the evidence is pretty overwhelming -- >> [inaudible] >> the answer is what i've said before which is that this is as it has been consistently the case with administrations of both parties, the internal deliberations of -- alexis, shake your head and editorialize -- >> [inaudible] covering other administrations when it didn't work and the information comes out. just put it out. >> well, th
this was about the confirmation of john brennan as the new head of the cia. they moved forward with that nomination and confirmed john brennan in that position. the speaker of the house is reported to be obsessed with benghazi and the political nefits of this pursuit. >> [inaudible] >> well, hold on, i'm just doing a great prelude to the answer which is -- [laughter] preface. so the speaker of the house is obsessed with this, has made all sorts of demands, and it turns out his...
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thanks if your time. >>> russia is saying it's arrested a covert cia operative from the u.s. trying to recruit a russian to spy. we'll bring you the details ahead in the news now. >>> new reaction this morning to actress angelina jolie's decision to have radical surgery to prevent breast cancer. some calling it a courageous choice. but is it a choice that is open to all women? we're going to look at just how expensive it potentially is for all american women out there. you're watching msnbc. we're back after this. ooood nig. here youou go. you, , too. i'm goining to dream about t that steaka. i'i'm going toto dream about thatat tiramisu.u. whwhat a nightht, huh? but, u um, can thehe test drivie be over nonow? head b back to the d dealership?p? [ mamale announcncer ] it's praractically y yours. but we stitill need yourur signaturere. volklkswagen sigign then dririe is back. anand it's nevever been eaeasir to get a a passat. that's's the powerer of german n engineerining. get $0$0 down, $0 0 due at sig, $0 depososit, anand $0 firstst month's p pt on any n new volkswawagen. vivi
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so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever knew. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life. after the cia deposed most of the place muhammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five years with the pressure until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy nine islamic revolution. with fundamentalists clerics now in power the company that would eventually be known as b.p. was forced to look elsewhere for their oil. we're all the product of our environment. i grew up in a unique place yeah. this is one part of the world dances to a different to. louisiana is in my blood it shaped who i am. a lot of people i grew up with became fishermen or musicians or oil workers. or chefs. i became a film. my family has deep roots in the easy and. the do praise the daily bars in the show vans all immigrated from france and settled in this region over a hundred years ago. a
so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever knew. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life. after the cia deposed most of the place muhammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five years with the pressure until finally spoke provoked them eight hundred seventy nine...
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because the general counsel of the cia, for one, was saying, hey, wait a minute. there are and will be ongoing investigations here. let's not only prejs them, not signal anything. let's cool it here for investigative reasons. it wasn't hillary clinton's state d. it wasn't ben rhodes at the white house. it wasn't lord knows david akle rod saying we have to cover this thing up for political purposes. there was none of that and to me that was a significant thing. >> and it wasn't susan rice. >> she wasn't even part of the deal. >> that's the biggest scandal of the thoel whole thing. she got trotted out and huge public shaming on set of talking point that she delivered that her staff as far as i can tell wasn't on the e-mail. >> they were prepared for congress and handed to her. that's one scandal. the other is what howard eludes to. state was left holding the bag and all hillary clinton's doing when this is all about the cia and possibly another -- not scandal but an interesting set of questions surrounds what was going on at the compound. there were 30 central intel
because the general counsel of the cia, for one, was saying, hey, wait a minute. there are and will be ongoing investigations here. let's not only prejs them, not signal anything. let's cool it here for investigative reasons. it wasn't hillary clinton's state d. it wasn't ben rhodes at the white house. it wasn't lord knows david akle rod saying we have to cover this thing up for political purposes. there was none of that and to me that was a significant thing. >> and it wasn't susan rice....
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in an investigation that appears to be related to ap reporting on the cia busting up an al-qaeda bomb plot a few years ago, the justice department has notified the ap that at least 20 of their phone lines including numbers of their reporters were swept up in a dragnet by the justice department. two months worth of phone records were obtained by the fbi. it is over and done with. when the ap published that story about a year ago about the bomb plot, the response on the right was kind of a mini version of the torches and pitch forks that came out in the 2000s. but in this case because it's a democratic president, the outrage on the right was directed at not just the reporters, it was against the government. they were alleging that the administration doesn't care enough about classified information being leaked. if they really cared, they would freaking investigate it. they would chase this thing down. >> what the president ought to be saying is that this is very damaging to the country. and we're going to do everything we can to get to the bottom of it, whether it involves my white hous
in an investigation that appears to be related to ap reporting on the cia busting up an al-qaeda bomb plot a few years ago, the justice department has notified the ap that at least 20 of their phone lines including numbers of their reporters were swept up in a dragnet by the justice department. two months worth of phone records were obtained by the fbi. it is over and done with. when the ap published that story about a year ago about the bomb plot, the response on the right was kind of a mini...
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, mike morel and then the cia director, david petraeus. david petraeus, after all the e-mails are in the eyes of republicans scrub said the following in one of these e-mails, he says, "i just as soon not use these." that's what critics are pouncing on tonight. an assertion they believe because there's no evidence that the cia officials actually independently wanted these changes. that's just what they told us in this private briefing. there's no evidence of that. and these e-mails, they believe the white house and state department played a significant role in this process. >> not surprising critics still believe that. i've reviewed some of them, and what strikes me is what you have is a situation of a white house trying to referee a whole -- herding a whole lot of cats that have different stakes on this issue and what ultimately happens in any of these situations if you've ever been part of collaborative process, cooperation, where everybody's got a veto is you go to the lowest common denominator, which is to say the least amount possible,
, mike morel and then the cia director, david petraeus. david petraeus, after all the e-mails are in the eyes of republicans scrub said the following in one of these e-mails, he says, "i just as soon not use these." that's what critics are pouncing on tonight. an assertion they believe because there's no evidence that the cia officials actually independently wanted these changes. that's just what they told us in this private briefing. there's no evidence of that. and these e-mails,...
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as it turns out a top cia official removed references to terror after the state department expressed concerns about language and suggested it could jeopardize the investigation. it also took out a section that indicated extremists had put out a call for insurgents to storm the agency in cairo. the spokesperson wrote that including the information, quote: could be abused by members warnings so why do we want to feed that either? >> concerned, that email now renewing republican claims that the administration was playing politics. just weeks before last year's election. president obama has flat out denied that. says it's the republicans who are creating political side show. james rosen with this news at the state department tonight. james? good evening. the state department paint the entire process as one dominated by the central intelligence agency. >> it does confirm that these were cia drafted and cia finalized talking points and this a number of concerns raised in this build were separately on a different track raised in that building as well. >> but in the emails, which were never
as it turns out a top cia official removed references to terror after the state department expressed concerns about language and suggested it could jeopardize the investigation. it also took out a section that indicated extremists had put out a call for insurgents to storm the agency in cairo. the spokesperson wrote that including the information, quote: could be abused by members warnings so why do we want to feed that either? >> concerned, that email now renewing republican claims that...
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his advisers and you have the intelligence community and certainly some choice things to say what the cia. welcome back to that. but -- and the vice-president to also especially in this a administration and the last has insisted on playing a larger role, whether that is you're not, that is not the point. the point is it is another voice to deal with. tell me, who decides the options? how are the options framed? and who should be? who really should have the -- more of the employed, if you would. >> well, very good question. and we came to afghanistan pakistan, which was really the big with the obama administration set before itself , had to manage. was there war. he wanted the main issues, and still there, really it's over and. so we started actually looking afghanistan, not really on the basis of its own merits in terms of what it needs, p interests are, how we eat come to some kind of conclusion enclosure l.a. that is good for the region and the texas. restarted relief from the premise. so bush did expiry therefore we should do why. we cannot do x because bush has done wind. and this was
his advisers and you have the intelligence community and certainly some choice things to say what the cia. welcome back to that. but -- and the vice-president to also especially in this a administration and the last has insisted on playing a larger role, whether that is you're not, that is not the point. the point is it is another voice to deal with. tell me, who decides the options? how are the options framed? and who should be? who really should have the -- more of the employed, if you would....